Divine blue light (for John Coltrane) / Will Alexander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alexander, Will, author.

Series:

Pocket poets series ; no. 63.

Pocket poets series ; number 63

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Coltrane, John, 1926-1967--Poetry.

Coltrane, John.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xiii, 93 pages ; 16 cm.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books, [2022]

Summary:

"Divine Blue Light is anchored by three major works: the opening 'Condoned to Disappearance,' a meditation on the heteronymic exploits of Portuguese modernist Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), the closing 'Imprecation as Mirage,' a poem channeling an apparently real Indonesian man, Taroon Kampoor, whose name spontaneously appeared in the poet's mind, and the title poem, an anthemic ode to the deconstructive maximalism of jazz saxophonist John Coltrane (1926-1967). Other key pieces include 'Accessing Gertrude Bell,' a critique of its titular subject (1868-1926), one of the architects of British Middle East policy and designers of the modern state of Iraq, 'Deficits: Chaïm Soutine & Joan Miró,' in homage to two Jewish artists forced to flee the Nazi Invasion of France, and 'According to Stellar Scale,' a compact lyric brought to and read in orbital space by astronaut Sian Proctor on the 2021 Inspiration4 mission. A kinetic explosion of language that emanates from the intersection between surrealism and afro-futurism, where Césaire meets Sun Ra, Divine Blue Light further affirms Alexander's status as one of the most unique and important voices in contemporary poetry, as well as highlighting his connection to his Pocket Poet predecessors and inspirations, Philip Lamantia and Bob Kaufman"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Gargantuan Origination: Inscription for the Collages of Dean Smith

A Blaze of Riddles

Ravenous Spectral Pores

Oneiric Liminal Memo

In a Pitch Dark Sailing House

Re-Extolling Barbarism

Neo-Rulership

A Series of Sub-Particulates

Anterior Cartography

Anterior Speculation

Phantom Inter-Dimensional Activity

Transitional Sub-Weavings

The Raven as Incantatory Nuclei

Peripheral Terminology

Fragment: Blaze as Unknowable Drift

Original Language

Borderless Hypotactic

Divine Blue Light: Sudden Ungraspable Nomadics

Human Presence That Lingers as Distorted Molecule

According to Stellar Scale

Nervous Incomparable Dictation

Accessing Gertrude Bell

Sans Phantom Neurotic Yield

Grammars from Other Suns

Mantric Blizzard as Space

Darkened Solar Implication

Language: Replete with Transformative Monsters

The Mind as Quantum Quintessence

Ghostly Bonding by Kinetic

Nervous Electrical Compounding

Deficits: Chai'm Soutine & Joan Miro

Under Corporate Worship

Hierarchy as Oblivion

The Death Support System

Inner Palpability

The Alchemical Androgyne

Hierarchical Lightning

Quaking Interior Haven

Pluperfect Aural Fatigue

On Philosophical Audition

Living Detritus

On Stellar Origination

On Eroded Solar Masses.

ISBN:

9780872868700

0872868702

OCLC:

1311591292